Hit 400 Magic Find Fast & Cheap (MF Guide)

Pretty impressive... had a look and a Hell Cow drops

Shako 1 in 1.6million times =)

LockeDown wrote: 3 years ago

brekol wrote: 3 years ago

What if I am looking for etheral bases for runewords. Should I target 0 (zero) magic find ?

That is my understanding yes and I think cows is great for looking for bases. Ironically I remember finding my first

Shako doing Hell cows looking for bases with 0 MF.

Every guide or mention about

Ancient Tunnels I see mentions no COLD IMMUNES can spawn. When I run it I encounter them once in a while. What gives?

Magicos wrote: 3 years ago

Every guide or mention about

Ancient Tunnels I see mentions no COLD IMMUNES can spawn. When I run it I encounter them once in a while. What gives?

Most likely elite monsters rolling resistance/cold enchanted as a modifier. Should be no natural cold immune monsters.

Magicos wrote: 3 years ago

Every guide or mention about

Ancient Tunnels I see mentions no COLD IMMUNES can spawn. When I run it I encounter them once in a while. What gives?

Trazgoth wrote: 3 years ago

Most likely elite monsters rolling resistance/cold enchanted as a modifier. Should be no natural cold immune monsters.

^What Trazgoth said.

For instance with the

Fire Wall sorceress, you can farm the council members in Durance lvl 3 right before

Mephisto. They are not naturally fire immune, however, an elite CAN spawn with an "immune to fire" modifier. i just skip those specific mobs.

BillyMaysed wrote: 3 years ago

^What Trazgoth said.

For instance with the

Fire Wall sorceress, you can farm the council members in Durance lvl 3 right before

Mephisto. They are not naturally fire immune, however, an elite CAN spawn with an "immune to fire" modifier. i just skip those specific mobs.

With

Fire Wall sorceress is better to have

Frozen Orb and Ice Bold maxed and a point in

Cold Mastery. It does wonders. Adding points into

Inferno is crap, you only get a measly 20%.

Fire Wall with 20 points in

Warmth does tons of damage. Any boss except ubers / clone disappears in seconds. Only

Baal takes a bit longer. The down side of Firewall is that it takes a lot of time getting used to targeting with it and it takes a long time to cast and adds a large cooldown until you can cast anything again.

brekol wrote: 3 years ago

What if I am looking for etheral bases for runewords. Should I target 0 (zero) magic find ?

Yes this is correct.

Here goes the dilemma, go 400+ mf or just gheeds

Thank you very much!! I've been struggling so hard because I couldn't drop any MF charm, but I never thought about the

Topaz socketed items! ♥

Luis wrote: 2 years ago

Thank you very much!! I've been struggling so hard because I couldn't drop any MF charm, but I never thought about the

Topaz socketed items! ♥

ya man theres a lot of cool cheap things that can really boost your MF by a lot, like the

Gull dagger you can gamble or find pretty easily for 100 MF, or the angelic set bonus for 50 MF per ring.

Just a small tip to add to suggested gear (for merc), Insight and a

Tal Rasha's Horadric Crest or

Vampire Gaze socketed with Ptopaz is a great option, and not too expensive at all. That'll give 47 MF that will add to the character's total if you let the merc deal the killing blow.

BillyMaysed wrote: 2 years ago

Luis wrote: 2 years ago

Thank you very much!! I've been struggling so hard because I couldn't drop any MF charm, but I never thought about the

Topaz socketed items! ♥

ya man theres a lot of cool cheap things that can really boost your MF by a lot, like the

Gull dagger you can gamble or find pretty easily for 100 MF, or the angelic set bonus for 50 MF per ring.

A good way to find

Gull (maybe not on your first character) is to gamble with a level 11 character. I think when someone did the maths it was 1

Gull on every 2M spent gambling on avg. So if you have money, want the

Dagger and drop rng isn't nice to you. You can always turn to your friendly act 1 vendor

Gheed and he'll do the magic.

halflife wrote: 2 years ago

Just a small tip to add to suggested gear (for merc), Insight and a

Tal Rasha's Horadric Crest or

Vampire Gaze socketed with Ptopaz is a great option, and not too expensive at all. That'll give 47 MF that will add to the character's total if you let the merc deal the killing blow.

There, i added a little Merc gear section based on your suggestions. Thanks man!

Is there anything about more or less / better or worse charms dropping with more or less mf?

Guess I can skip the better/worse part, but what about the more or less?

KanePortnoy wrote: 2 years ago

Is there anything about more or less / better or worse charms dropping with more or less mf?

Guess I can skip the better/worse part, but what about the more or less?

I'm not exactly sure what you're asking? Maybe ive been smoking too much, but this reads like a riddle. lol

Are you asking about the MF ranges i have on charms? I put the possible ranges that they can drop with based on the D2 affix page. So small charms can drop with 3-7 possible MF, large charms are weirdly less with 1-6. then GCs are 1-12 possible MF.

BillyMaysed wrote: 2 years ago

KanePortnoy wrote: 2 years ago

Is there anything about more or less / better or worse charms dropping with more or less mf?

Guess I can skip the better/worse part, but what about the more or less?

I'm not exactly sure what you're asking? Maybe ive been smoking too much, but this reads like a riddle. lol

Are you asking about the MF ranges i have on charms? I put the possible ranges that they can drop with based on the D2 affix page. So small charms can drop with 3-7 possible MF, large charms are weirdly less with 1-6. then GCs are 1-12 possible MF.

Sorry, to specify it down :
- does MF has an influence in how many charms drop? Or is it with charms as with runes, they drop aside of regular items?
- second part I more or less retracted, as I could answer myself. That was, if the % of MF has impact on the quality of the charms, which due to RNG should not be the case.

Hope that makes it more clear

KanePortnoy wrote: 2 years ago

Hope that makes it more clear

Ah okay. Well Magic Find only increases item quality, not the number or type of anything specific dropping. You can consult the Item Finder to find out exactly where certain items drop, but for Charms its pretty random. Typically The

Secret Cow Level is the best place simply because you kill lots of mobs.

y2kid wrote: 2 years ago

BillyMaysed wrote: 2 years ago

Luis wrote: 2 years ago

Thank you very much!! I've been struggling so hard because I couldn't drop any MF charm, but I never thought about the

Topaz socketed items! ♥

ya man theres a lot of cool cheap things that can really boost your MF by a lot, like the

Gull dagger you can gamble or find pretty easily for 100 MF, or the angelic set bonus for 50 MF per ring.

A good way to find

Gull (maybe not on your first character) is to gamble with a level 11 character. I think when someone did the maths it was 1

Gull on every 2M spent gambling on avg. So if you have money, want the

Dagger and drop rng isn't nice to you. You can always turn to your friendly act 1 vendor

Gheed and he'll do the magic.

2M from a level 11 character? for fresh players that's a tough one especially act 1 mobs drop less than 100 gold lol

better off to try their luck with Cold Crow.

BillyMaysed wrote: 2 years ago

halflife wrote: 2 years ago

Just a small tip to add to suggested gear (for merc), Insight and a

Tal Rasha's Horadric Crest or

Vampire Gaze socketed with Ptopaz is a great option, and not too expensive at all. That'll give 47 MF that will add to the character's total if you let the merc deal the killing blow.

There, i added a little Merc gear section based on your suggestions. Thanks man!
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Thank you for the awesome guide in the first place. Keep up the good work!

annoynimous wrote: 2 years ago

y2kid wrote: 2 years ago

BillyMaysed wrote: 2 years ago

ya man theres a lot of cool cheap things that can really boost your MF by a lot, like the

Gull dagger you can gamble or find pretty easily for 100 MF, or the angelic set bonus for 50 MF per ring.

A good way to find

Gull (maybe not on your first character) is to gamble with a level 11 character. I think when someone did the maths it was 1

Gull on every 2M spent gambling on avg. So if you have money, want the

Dagger and drop rng isn't nice to you. You can always turn to your friendly act 1 vendor

Gheed and he'll do the magic.

2M from a level 11 character? for fresh players that's a tough one especially act 1 mobs drop less than 100 gold lol

better off to try their luck with Cold Crow.

Which is exactly why I said probably not on your first char. But also it's all rng in the end and what takes 200 tries for one might take 2 attempts for another. If I want a

Gull I'd always spend most of my money when I hit 11 gambling anyway since I don't need gold that early on.

y2kid wrote: 2 years ago

Which is exactly why I said probably not on your first char. But also it's all rng in the end and what takes 200 tries for one might take 2 attempts for another. If I want a

Gull I'd always spend most of my money when I hit 11 gambling anyway since I don't need gold that early on.

Ya def a 2nd character thing, the odds on the

Gull dagger gamble is what, 1:2000 chance? ive seen people get it in just a few hundred thousand gold, and others taken over 10 million. The odds are around half of what a

Shako dropping is. xD